Dr. Barbara Blouw has a Ph.D. from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and completed her postdoctoral research at the Sanford Burnham Prebys, Medical Discovery Institute, and the University of California, San Diego Division of Biological Sciences in basic cancer biopsy. Professionally, she has worked for Navigate Biopharma (a Novartis Company), Halozyme and Biocept. Dr. Blouw has a broad background in oncology research, clinical trial design, regulatory submissions, biostatistics, and clinical operations. She also has expertise in CNS biomarker development using in vitro and in vivo preclinical models and assay development and validations for clinical trial testing per the College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments.